Five-year plan, probably no X-Men

After making 22 films that tell a coherent story, while generating nearly $ 20 billion in global revenue, what will Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige do now? The same thing again – with a whole new set of toys.

On April 26, publication of Avengers: End of the game will close the first eleven years of Marvel Studios' films. Then, in 2020, the company will enter phase four of its cinematic universe, next chapter in the larger storyline with new heroes, all of whom will feel the impact of past events. Plus, now that Disney has acquired 20th Century Fox, these stories could potentially include X-Men. According to Feige, however, fans should not hold their breath for that.

"It's going to take time," Feige told Oio 9 when he was asked about the possibility of integrating the X-Men into the MCU. "All of this is just beginning and the five-year plan we worked on, we did it even before it was all defined. It is therefore much more difficult for us to know when and where. [the X-Men will appear] for the moment and more than the comfort factor and how good it is that they are at home. They are all back. But it will be very long. "

This five-year plan is likely to start with films such as Black Widow, The Eternals, Shang-Chi, and others. Unfortunately, on the list of topics that Feige does not want to tackle in depth, phase four is even more ambitious than Avengers: End of the game. Both things are apparently too closely related, and any recognition of the myriad of information on phase four could potentially ruin something. End of Game. However, Feige believes that the new films are a worthy successor to the first three phases of the MCU, which have broken records.

"The list we are building over the next five years [is] not apples with apples, "he said when asked to compare the past and the future. "These are two very distinct things and I hope the two will feel very different. But there is a mentality similar to this one: "How can we continue to tell stories to certain characters that the public already knows and loves in a unique way, in a different way, from one person to another? 39 Surprisingly, which we have a lot of plans and ideas and work already in progress? & # 39; [Then] "How can we introduce new characters that even the most hardcore fans, comics fans, have barely known or barely heard of." It's also very exciting. "

If you read between these lines, movies such as Black Widow, Black Panther 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and Strange Doctor 2 corresponds to the first part, while the films like The eternals and Shang-Chi adapt to the second. However, none of these films include the X-Men.

However, it is important to remember that if Feige said the X-Men would not be here for a while, Thanos was introduced for the first time in 2012, years before its impact was felt. And when Marvel and Sony have pbaded a deal for Spider-Man, the full course of Captain America: Civil War changed very quickly, at least in terms of achievement. Marvel is known for its wild pivots and long teasing in the shallows. So, it is entirely possible that Feige is honest, or that anything is planned, it is simply too surprising to recognize for the moment.

We will have our first answers about all this during Avengers: End of the game, which opens on April 26th.

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